The Amorites

In the beginning of the second millennium BCE, Mesopotamia (the territory of modern Iraq and Syria) saw the rise of several royal dynasties which vied for rule over the land between the Tigris and the Euphrates. A trait common to those dynasties was their Amorite origin.

The historical study offered in this book is based on numerous cuneiform sources (royal inscriptions, letters, law collections, economic documents, and more), and on the up-to-date scholarship on the topic. It offers, for the first time in Hebrew, a comprehensive and thorough overview of a pivotal era in the history of the Ancient Near East (ca. 2000-1600 BCE).